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County chiefs: mutual aid and aviation limited during 2024; committee weighs prepositioning and emergency rules
Summary
County and state witnesses said the 2024 fire season showed limits to mutual aid, that aviation and incident management capacity were often committed elsewhere, and that emergency EFSA rule changes to allow prepositioning may be needed for rapid initial attack.
County fire wardens and the Wyoming state forester told the Joint Appropriations Committee that the 2024 fire season exposed operational limits in mutual aid, aviation availability and incident management capacity — and that some of those limits stem from national resource allocation and the state’s current rules about prepositioning resources.
Chad Cooper, president of the Wyoming Fire Advisory Board, described the coordination system: local fire districts perform initial attack and then, if incidents exceed local capacity, an agency administrator group convenes to forecast resource…
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